As a banned player myself, my thoughts on the Tyler1 debacle.

(I wanted to wait until the initial ruckus died down before posting.)

I've mentioned Tyler in some of my posts before his indefinite ban, and how as a banned player interested in reforming, I particularly dislike what he was doing.

He was getting rewarded with fans, accolades, donation, viewers, and all such for spending so much time specifically NOT reforming. This was also helped by his legitimately being a good player when he wanted to be, especially since good Draven players are few and far between.

Contrast this to someone like myself, someone who won't/can't ever be a popular streamer and isn't particularly good at the game, whose only "reward" for wanting to reform is grinding a new account and having my desire to play be all but butchered by the game's ridiculous content grind.

To me, it's felt EXTREMELY defeating to see Tyler have so much success from his stunts, even more so after seeing all his "fans" coming to his defense (as misguided as that defense is), and I'm glad that Riot's finally put their foot down on him.

It feels like it was a bit "too little too late", though. In his tenure as "Most Toxic Player NA", he had more success than I likely ever will no matter how much I "reform".

It just makes me wonder what the point is now. Sure, I can say I'm "morally better than Tyler1", but is that honestly much of a compliment?